The ones that got away, players we missed out on.

ecossebear said:
July/August that year Murray was desperate for us to break the transfer record for a striker. We had agreed terms with a Spanish club for Tamudo for about £10m and he didn’t want to leave Spain. We looked at folk (Camara from Chelsea and a few others), gave Hartson a medical he failed before going all in on Flo. I think De Boer was always going to be in addition (and if I recall we tried for his brother the same time too).
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I'm sure Emile Mpenza was another one we tried to get before Flo.
 
We could conceivably have a team containing the likes of Doekhi, Veerman, Tillman, Thijs Dallinga, Skov Olsen for around £10m for the lot of them. Any of them right now would be our best player.
 
Luca Vialli had agreed terms and had given his word to David Murray

Then Chelsea came in with less of a wage
But the lure of London had us beat

Luca phoned Murray to apologise



On another note
I have it on very good authority that the Child Cooker was a baw hair away from signing for us from Aberdeen
But his family (uncles) talked him out it and he signed for the Rhats instead
 
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Agent Harris said:
Lewis Ferguson

Had the chance to buy him for 2-3 million deemed not good enough by many and someone with power at Rangers

Now captain of a top 5 side in one of the best leagues in the world and way out our price bracket

One of the most obvious ever Rangers signings we didn’t make

Lennon Miller will probably be the next we don’t buy and he moves to a foreign league and kills it
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The Lewis Ferguson paradox on here from some is unreal.

Lewis Ferguson is the player he is today because he went to Italy. The Lewis Ferguson we’d have got had we signed him would have never developed into that player had he stayed in Scotland.
 
Johansen said:
Andy Gray and David Narey at Dundee United, Wallace wanted both but the board would finance it and it's doubtful the McLean would sell to us.
Willie Miller at Aberdeen, Greig was giving him the Captaincy but Miller knocked us back
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It was Craig Levine, not Dave Narey. United players were tied in with large endowment policies, tied to them staying at Tannadice.
 
Johansen said:
We missed our big time on not signing Willie Wallace. If we had signed him they probably wouldn't have won the European Cup and their 9 in a row
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Too young have seen him play, but just the other day saw extended highlights of the Baxter game at Wembley in 1967. FFS, what a player. It certainly looked like we missed a trick there. Would that have been Greig, Baxter, Henderson, Wallace and eventually Stein in one team?
 
Ronaldinho Gaúcho said:
This wee man might be close :)

Gers monitor Messi

Rangers are hoping to sign Argentinian prodigy Leo Messi on loan from Barcelona.
www.skysports.com www.skysports.com
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I was just thinking in relation to my own experience really. R9 and Sheva were already amongst the hottest players in the world when we pursued them. I can still remember how excited I was at the prospect of both, because they were absolute superstars. Shevchenko and Rebrov in that Kiev side were dynamite.

Messi just seemed like paper talk and nobody here had actually seen him at that point. We subsequently found out he was no bad, obvs.
 
CortesGoldenBoots said:
Did we sign Oleg Salenko instead, or was that a different summer? It seems to ring a bell.
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It was 1995. The Raducioiu saga ran from the middle of May to the end of July before finallly being called off by Rangers. Salenko was signed a few days later (subject to a work permit).

The same summer that we signed Gascoigne, Stephen Wright and Gordan Petric (ahead of them). Their only major signing was Andreas Thom, I think.
 
BlueBadger said:
It was 1995. The Raducioiu saga ran from the middle of May to the end of July before finallly being called off by Rangers. Salenko was signed a few days later (subject to a work permit).

The same summer that we signed Gascoigne, Stephen Wright and Gordan Petric (ahead of them). Their only major signing was Andreas Thom, I think.
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Good times - even though Salenko was a massive disappointment.
 
M Watson said:
Obviously some silly rumours get bounced around by the press (Ronaldo joining but only playing in CL games)

Mario Jardel was probably the longest pursuit of a player then he couldn’t get a work permit due to the idiotic rules regarding non EU players. He ended up with an average of over a goal a game for Porto, and would have been a great signing for us.

Archie Knox apparently wasn’t keen on him and quoted as saying he ‘couldn’t trap a bag of cement’; genuis!!
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The reason Jardel didn't sign was he couldn't get a work permit. There were only a set amount available in Scottish football. Rumour had it that Celtic were about to get rid of Rudi Vata but held on to him as that would have allowed us to sign Jardel.
 
ecossebear said:
July/August that year Murray was desperate for us to break the transfer record for a striker. We had agreed terms with a Spanish club for Tamudo for about £10m and he didn’t want to leave Spain. We looked at folk (Camara from Chelsea and a few others), gave Hartson a medical he failed before going all in on Flo. I think De Boer was always going to be in addition (and if I recall we tried for his brother the same time too).
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Who was Camara at Chelsea? Don't recall such a player.
 
The 60's and early 70's Danny McGrain, Kenny Dalglish, Andy Gray, Gordon McQueen, Kenny Burns, Stevie Nicol, John McGovern and there were more
 
Brother Crockett said:
It was Craig Levine, not Dave Narey. United players were tied in with large endowment policies, tied to them staying at Tannadice.
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Wallace went in for both Gray and Narey in the summer of 1975, Dundee Utd knocked both back. Craig Levein only started his pro career in 1981, he wasn't at Dundee Utd in the mid 1970s.
 
Dado_Prso_9 said:
The Lewis Ferguson paradox on here from some is unreal.

Lewis Ferguson is the player he is today because he went to Italy. The Lewis Ferguson we’d have got had we signed him would have never developed into that player had he stayed in Scotland
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Lot of pish, The evidence suggests he would have performed to an even better level than he was at Aberdeen as he would be training better , eating better and surrounded by better players

His performances in Scotland were already good so this notion if he came to us he wouldn’t have been as good or developed as well as he has abroad is untrue or at least no substance to prove it

The Lewis Ferguson we would have gotten could have developed into a top player playing week in week out for a side who’s challenging for the title and going on deep european runs


The theory he wouldn’t have been as good has been made up to deflect from the fact we missed out on a very good homegrown talent who is a boyhood fan of the club with a father and uncle who are legends here who have both stated he would have walked to Ibrox
 
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Johansen said:
Wallace went in for both Gray and Narey in the summer of 1975, Dundee Utd knocked both back. Craig Levein only started his pro career in 1981, he wasn't at Dundee Utd in the mid 1970s.
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Sorry, Jock mark 11 not mark one. On record he knows what was coming when he was knocked back with Levine. Ironically Levine would probably have been great alongside Butcher and sensationalfor club and country with big Goughie.

There was a second player, but can’t remember who
 
Veerman for me in recent times - mostly because it was a sliding doors moment for us as a club, seemed to set off a chain of events that led us down the way after reaching an all time high.
 
Agent Harris said:
Lot of pish, The evidence suggests he would have performed to an even better level than he was at Aberdeen as he would be training better , eating better and surrounded by better players

His performances in Scotland were already good so this notion if he came to us he wouldn’t have been as good or developed as well as he has abroad is untrue or at least no substance to prove it

The Lewis Ferguson we would have gotten could have developed into a top player playing week in week out for a side who’s challenging for the title and going on deep european runs


The theory he wouldn’t have been as good has been made up to deflect from the fact we missed out on a very good homegrown talent who is a boyhood fan of the club with a father and uncle who are legends here who have both stated he would have walked to Ibrox
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Aye mate, it’s a “lot of pish” that playing against AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Napoli, Torino, Fiorentina, etc developed him more than playing against St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Ross Country, and St Johnstone did.

I didn’t bother reading past the first three words.
 
Dado_Prso_9 said:
Aye mate, it’s a “lot of pish” that playing against AC Milan, Juventus, Inter Milan, Napoli, Torino, Fiorentina, etc developed him more than playing against St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Ross Country, and St Johnstone did.

I didn’t bother reading past the first three words.
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Except that’s not what you said now is it

“Lewis Ferguson is the player he is today because he went to Italy.”

Not true and you have no evidence to suggest he wouldn’t be a top player had we not signed him infact as i suggested it’s the opposite better coaches, training , eating regime would have seen him become a top player here as he also has became in Italy

The goldfish bowl mentality of only if he went abroad can he become a good player is what leads to us missing out on such talents
 
Agent Harris said:
Except that’s not what you said now is it

“Lewis Ferguson is the player he is today because he went to Italy.”

Not true and you have no evidence to suggest he wouldn’t be a top player had we not signed him infact as i suggested it’s the opposite better coaches, training , eating regime would have seen him become a top player here as he also has became in Italy

The goldfish bowl mentality of only if he went abroad can he become a good player is what leads to us missing out on such talents
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We missed the boat with him.

He’s a very good player.

Italy made him an even better player.

The player he is today, because of playing against better standard of players every single week, is not the player we’d have had.

We’d have had a good player, but not the talent he’s developed into in Italy.

It’s that simple.
 
I found an old copy of the sun in my house a few years ago back page was linking us to Overmars I’ll need to dig it out, no idea ho true it was. Got old newspapers from Niar need to have a look
 
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